Many people have done many great things for me
But one that stands out is the actions of a distributor for the previous company. I had gone over to assist in a Hifi show in the Netherlands. I went over on the wednesday night for setup on the thursday and exhibiting on the friday saturday and sunday. The setup went to plan and I went for a meal with the distributor and his team on the thursday night. Whilst there, I received a voicemail message from a schoolfriend- he had managed to get no less than 15 of my schoolfriends together for a wild night in Amsterdam- that saturday. The last bit of the message then berated me for not giving him my new mobile number but he was giving me all the notice he could. Well I might have been in the same country but I was working and might as well been in Rekjavik for the difference it was going to make. I finished the message, sent a text apologising for my inability to stay in contact with people and went back to the table.

"Anything wrong?" asked my Dutch colleague.

"No its fine" I said "just unfortunate timing in that a schoolfriend of mine has invited me to an overnighter in Amsterdam this weekend but hadn't been able to get hold of me until today so I'm going to have to pass."

And then it went a bit surreal

"Why?- you're only an hour away." Came the reply

"Well yes but I'm working with you this weekend as booked and requested by you for some time."

"We'll be fine, do some demo work tomorrow morning and you can be there by the afternoon. We'll see you on the Sunday afternoon."

And with that, he signed me off for a night of insanity, drove me to the station and never said a word about my absence to my employers.

Andre- you're a champion.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Sun 5 Oct 2008, 22:43, Reply)